It was just a scant 40 days ago that Gov. Cuomo was hosting a wine, beer and spirits summit in Albany to promote New York’s booming beverage industry.

But, as The Post’s Carl Campanile reported Monday, it’s an industry that the governor’s very own Public Health and Health Planning Council has drawn a bead on — drafting a five-year plan to hike the tax on alcohol sales in New York and slash permits for bars and liquor stores in an effort to stop adults from drinking more than the government do-goodniks think is healthy.

The panel calls it a “Health Improvement Plan” — but it would be absolute poison for New York’s brewers, vintners, restaurateurs and bartenders, who would all lose a great deal.

After all, breweries and wineries in New York employ some 4,000 people — but that doesn’t even come close to the number of folks whose livelihoods are at the mercy of the restaurant business’ razor-thin margins.

A lot of their profits come from booze sales. When taxes jump, prices leap — and those sales start to dry up. So do bars and restaurants. And then so do lots of jobs.

Interfering would put those jobs at risk — Cuomo was quite clear on that during his upstate tipple tour in October.

“New York’s vibrant beer, wine, cider and spirits industry supports thousands of jobs across the state,” he said, promising to “work as an entrepreneurial government to partner with the private sector to help key industries thrive and prosper.”

And he pledged to “help New York’s wine, beer and spirits producers penetrate major markets, like New York City’s restaurants.”

So imagine his surprise when he learned that his health team was so eager to dry out those very restaurants.

New York’s health mavens, of course, think of adults as children who need to be told how to behave, what to eat and how much to drink.

Happily, the governor is having none of it.

His office said last night that he “doesn’t support raising this tax, or the other measures” aimed at reducing alcohol usage. The panel’s recommendations “do not reflect administration policy.”

It’s rare these days when a pol stands up against the use of government’s coercive powers to modify behavior. (That’s right, Mayor Mike: We’re looking at you!)